Jane Bennet is the first born child of the Mr and Mrs Bennet. One would expect the eldest sister to be looked up to by the other sisters as she would be expected to be the one with the most experience of life

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Jane Bennet is the first born child of the Mr and Mrs Bennet. One would expect the eldest sister to be looked up to by the other sisters as she would be expected to be the one with the most experience of life and therefore offer good advice and words of wisdom to her younger sisters but this is not the case.

Jane always has a lot of hope in individuals and society as a whole and can therefore be seen as very naïve, as this is the reason why she is often let down. This characteristic of her is pointed out to her on many occasions by her younger sister, Elizabeth, for example when they were discussing the letter sent to Elizabeth by Mr Darcy, Elizabeth said to

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Jane “you will never be able to make both of them good for anything.” Jane Austen shows her approval of Elizabeth’s comment where she states that Jane ‘…would willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind, as was here collected in one individual.’

Jane’s ‘insistence on giving everyone the benefit of the doubt results in her failure to see through Miss Bingley’s strategies, jeopardising not only her own but bingley’s happiness.’  

Elizabeth unlike her older sister creates opinions of people very quickly, once she has formed ...

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